History of The Osshur Empire

Ossurman I and his navy crushes the Warlord Coalition in several naval battles on the Blue Ribbon Sea. Unable to match the firepower of the Osshurian army's imported Paradisian matchlocks, the Warlord Coalition surrenders the Southern Riverlands within six months.

One who briefly gave the Emperor trouble was a warlord by the name of Raj, a saint of defiance. While Raj and Ossurman never met face to face on the battlefield, the warlord was vocally and physically opposed to the Empire’s expansion, and he was involved in several ambushes and hit-and-run attacks on the All-Father’s forces. He was eventually tracked down to his village on the Yellow Sea and executed, but that was in 38, eight years after the rest of the Northern Alliance had been defeated.

In 83, the Chengal made contact with the disparate tribes of the Crystal Lands. In exchange for their allegiance, he promised them development and civilisation. By 94, the first road connected the biggest settlement in the Crystal Lands, Dehmili, with the imperial tradeport in Lahchandra on the Blue Ribbon Sea, capital of the Chandra Princedom. The wild and untamed creatures of the land would pose a threat to further development in the region, but the land was fertile and free to settle for both human, monster and Loong. With the establishment of a few forts, patrols soon began to oversee the safekeeping of villages.

When the news reached the fringes of the realm of the Roaring Chengal’s death and the hopelessness of his heir, opportunistic forces began to stir. In Luonnada in the late dry season of 103, a troublemaker by the name of Rastaqira amassed a following in the clay pits she worked in and led an uprising. Normally, a small riot like this would have been put down within the week, but Rastaqira and her ruffians were allowed to pillage and raid clay pits for months as the local thukar’s house guard had been summoned to the capital. Why had they been summoned? The Emperor had called in the Imperial Army to the capital with a single goal in mind: They were to expel all monsters from the realm.

With the death of Antriocu in 122, there was the Imperial Revival Rebellion in the countryside of the Osshur Princedom. While initially promising, they quickly fell into hostile factionalism as arguments arose about who would take over as Emperor once the revolution was over. One of these factions, the Lotus Banner, led by a milkmaid and Saint of Orynn named Mujagasuna, began spreading their influence on the countryside and soon thereafter led a rebellion against the other factions who had claimed lordship over them. Mujagasuna was, to everyone’s surprise, supposedly a magnificent fighter - it was said her bare hand to cleave a stone in two. They managed to undo the other factions and nearly take Loharta, but the movement broke apart when Mujagasuna was captured and executed at the hands of Bos-Kali the Immortal in 129.

With the death of Antriocu in 122, there was the Imperial Revival Rebellion in the countryside of the Osshur Princedom. While initially promising, they quickly fell into hostile factionalism as arguments arose about who would take over as Emperor once the revolution was over. One of these factions, the Lotus Banner, led by a milkmaid and Saint of Orynn named Mujagasuna, began spreading their influence on the countryside and soon thereafter led a rebellion against the other factions who had claimed lordship over them. Mujagasuna was, to everyone’s surprise, supposedly a magnificent fighter - it was said her bare hand to cleave a stone in two. They managed to undo the other factions and nearly take Loharta, but the movement broke apart when Mujagasuna was captured and executed at the hands of Bos-Kali the Immortal in 129.

In the spring of 135, there was the Chandramaya Uprising in Chandra rojalore, in which the grandchild of Lahmore vur Chandramaya, Punjabu, claimed to be descended from the Imperial line. While technically true, he was not of House vur Chakravarti and had no actual claim to the Imperial throne. The uprising received little support outside of Chandra and was quickly snuffed out by the other princes.

While the Krishnaya Rebellion raged on the other side of the country, the princedoms of Lahmi and Rusajar formed a coalition against the aggressive expansion of Luonnada. After defeating the Luonnadan army in the spring of 211 and hearing of Krishnaya’s death in the autumn, Lahmi and Rusajar crowned Chandragupta III vur Rusajar to Glorious Emperor of Osshuria and mustered their forces to move on Loharta. Krishnaya’s daughter, Krishnaya II vur Osshurmani, pleaded like her mother had to the Eight-Armed God to be accepted into their house so people may see the true empress for who she was. Unfortunately, the message was intercepted on the way and someone edited the name to say Chandragupta instead. The Family God agreed and adopted Chandragupta into their house. For a year or so, the unification looked to be feasible: Krishnaya’s allies were beginning to move over to the side of the vur Chakravarti name. However, the Emperor Chandragupta was assassinated on the last day of that very same year.

An ancient secret society known as the Children of Raj attempted to stage a large-scale rebellion in 325 against what they deemed to be “the tyrannical rule of a god of oppression.” Whatever their motivation, the movement did not make it far. Refusing to take any chances, the Eight-Armed God graced the rebels with their personal presence as they attempted to sack Jassahm. Records hereafter only reference the Children of Raj in the past tense. A few sources confirm that the society’s possible leader, Gurajput, was executed and offered to the magnificent Umati known as Nahia, the Green Song Seeking the Virtuous, for the young crown-prince’s eighth birthday. The performance entertained the entire capital for weeks.

A small revolt led against the slave-like practices in the claypits of Luonnada. The revolt nearly made its way beyond the Princedom under the leadership of Robertiu il’Trevaldiu, but was crushed by the combined armies of Rusajar and Osshuria.